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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1889. 777
The net cost of the service to the Imperial Government, after deducting the contribution of 15,000 7. which the Dominion Government has agreed to pay, will amount to 45,000 7. a year. A sum of about 2,165 l. a year now paid to France and Italy for the conveyance of the China and Japan Mails by other routes, may perhaps be saved; on the other hand, the cost of conveying the mails across the Atlantic may amount to 650 7. a year.
The Canadian Pacific Railway will present an alternative route for Australian and New Zealand Mails. At present those mails, when sent via America, travel viâ New York and San Francisco, and a specially high rate is paid for the United States land transit. Under the proposed Contract, it will be possible to send them via Quebec (or Halifax) and Vancouver on payment of the ordinary Postal Union rates of transit to the Canadian Post Office, and possibly the mail route via the Pacific to Australia will be diverted from San Francisco to Vancouver.
My Lords approve the Contract.
Let Copy of the Contract and of the above Minute be laid before Parliament.
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COPY of a CONTRACT, dated 15th July 1889, between HER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER GENERAL, the LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY, and the CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY for the CONVEYANCE of MAILS, TROOPS, and STORES, between Halifax (or Quebec) and Hong Kong, and for the Hire and Purchase of VESSELS AS CRUISERS OF TRANSPORTS.
CONTRACT OF 15TH JULY 1889.
CONVEYANCE OF MAILS, TROOPS, AND STORES BETWEEN HALIFAX (OR QUEBEC) AND HONG KONG.
And for the HIRE and, PURCHASE of VESSELS as CRUISERS OF TRANSPOrts.
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT under seal made and entered into this Fifteenth day of July 1889 between the Right Honourable Henry Cecil Raikes Her Majesty's Postmaster General (hereinafter called the Postmaster General in which term is included any and every his successor in office Her Majesty's Postmaster General for the time being) on behalf of Her Majesty of the first part the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (hereinafter called the Admiralty) on behalf of Her Majesty of the second part the Canadian Pacific Railway Company whose place of business in the United Kingdom is at 88 Cannon-street in the City of London (hereinafter called the Company) of the third part and Sir George Stephen Baronet of the City of Montreal in the Dominion of Canada and Sir Donald Alexander Smith K.C.M.G. of the City of Montreal in the Dominion of Canada of the fourth part.
These presents Witness that the Postmaster General (as to the covenants agreements and stipu- lations hereinafter contained on his part) and the Admiralty and their successors (as to the covenants and agreements and stipulations hereinafter contained on their part) do respectively hereby covenant and agree with the Company and their successors and the Company for themselves their successors and assigns (as to the covenants agreements and stipulations hereinafter contained on their part) do hereby covenant and agree with the Postmaster General and as a separate covenant with the Admiralty and their successors in manner following (that is to say):
SERVICES TO BE PERFORMED.
1. For all the purposes of these presents the terin "mails" shall be construed and Definition of mails. held to comprehend all boxes bags or packets of letters postcards newspapers books or printed papers parcels and all other articles which under the regulations of the Post Office for the time being are transmissible by the post without regard either to the place to which they may be addressed or to that in which they may have originated and also all empty bags empty boxes baskets and other receptacles and other stores and articles used or to be used in carrying on the Post Office service which shall be sent by to or from any Post Office in any country or place to or from which mails are required to be conveyed in pursuance of this Agreement.
general.
2. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement the Company shall and will during Mail services in the continuance of this Agreement at their own costs and charges in all respects convey or cause to be conveyed once in every four weeks in each direction all mails which the Postmaster General or any of his deputies officers servants or agents shall from time to time require to be conveyed in either direction between Halifax or Quebec (as hereinafter provided) in the Dominion of Canada and the port of Hong Kong in China and between the several ports and places mentioned in the First Schedule bereto. Such conveyance